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R. JONES.

OAR REPLAGER.

Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

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- WITNESSES N PETERS. Pholn LntJNli'TED STATES PATENT li ldl' CE ROBERT J ONES, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.

CAR-=REPLACER.

EEPEOIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,520, dated January 6,1885.

(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT J ONES, of Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and Territory of Utah, have invented a new and Improved Gar-Replacer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby cars and locomotives can readily and with comparative ease be replaced upon the track when derailed.

To this end myinvention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a railroad-track, showing the frogs in position for use. Fig. 2 is aside elevationof the same.

A A indicate the rails, and B the ties, of a section of a railroad. O is a frog having tracksections or flanges D D formed upon its wider end, said flanges having rabbets d at their inner ends, as shown. To the opposite end of the frog from the flanges Dis pivoted one endof a tongue, E, of such length that it extends to and tits into one or the other of the rabbets (Z, as may be. The pivoted end of the tongue is cut away or beveled at c, and the corre sponding end of the frog is recessed at each side of the tongue at 0. Upon each side 01" the frog, at the end to which the tongue is pivoted, is a downwardly-extending lug, F, each pro vided with a set-screw, f, the distance between the lugs F being such that a lateral adj ustment of the end of the frog can be made relatively to the rail to adjust that end of the tongue to be exactly over the rail, for which purpose a wedge, G, is inserted between the lug F, on that side of the rail from which the frog extends, and the web of the railthat is, looking along the track in the direction oilthe arrow at in Fig. 1. If the positions of the wheels of a derailed car require the frogs to be placed to extend to the right-hand side of the track, the wedges will need to be placed between the right-hand lugs F and the rails. The tongues E, being then swung to have their free ends in the rabbets cl of the flanges D, as

shown, will form continuous bearings for the treads of the wheels from the flanges D to the rails. This position of the tongues is shown by full lines in Fig. 1. The tongues E would require to be in the reverse positions if the wheels were off upon the left-hand side of the track. By this arrangement of the flanges D the tongue E, and the flanges F, and by the use of thet -wedge G, the frog can be adjusted for use as either a right or left hand frog, as the case in hand may require. After the rail end of the frog has been positioned by the wedge G, that set-screw f opposite the wedge is to be tightened up to keep the frog in place. Upon the under side of the lower end of the '65 frog spikes or prongs H are formed, adapted to be forced into one of the ties, to assist in holding the frog in place. The frog is made with a bend or angle at I, whereby the upper part, 9 of the frog is in line with the track and its lower part, It, is made to form an incline extending to the r0ad-bed. The lower ends of the flanges Dare tapered downwardly and outwardly to facilitate the passage of a wheel upon-the i'rog. The QXlTQIlSlOll-PlGGG J (shown at the right of Fig. 1) is a tapering plate, L, having side flanges, K, beveled at the thin end of the plate. The plate and flanges are made wider at the thick end of the plate, and recesses 1.: are formed therein to pass upon the flanges D of the frog. The under side of the plate is beveled at Z to fit upon the part h of the frog. One of these extension-pieces J is to be used with each frog. The frog can be made in different sizes to fit diil'erent sizes of 8 5 rails, and the extensierrpiece may be of any desired length.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters latent 1. A ear-replacer consisting, essentially, of 90 a frog, 0, provided with a pivoted tongue, and bent at I to form a downward incline, h, the inclined flanges D, formed on opposite sides of said incline h, and the depending lugs F, at the opposite end of the frog from the incline 5 I, substantially as set forth.

2. In a ca-r-replacer, the combination, with a frog adapted to extend from the rail to the road bed, provided with a pivoted tongue, and having downwardly-extending lugs, of a I00 wedge adapted to be placed between one of the lugs and the web of the rail, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the frog 0, having flangesD, downwardly-extending lugs F, and prongs H, and provided with the tongue E, of the wedge G, and the set-screws f, substantially as specified.

4. In a car-i'eplacer, the extension-piece J, having flanges K, and adapted to fit upon the 10 frog 0, substantially as specified.

ROBERT JONES.

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CHAS. W. STAYNER, .Jos. F. SIMMONS. 

